The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.
At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.